Doug,

Nice photo of a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper. If the bird had angled its foot a little, even the semipalmated (partially webbed) area between the toes would be visible.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Plummer
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:31 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] what shorebird is this?


ID question, photos here: http://www.dougplummer.com/birds/what_shorebird.html


I'm not the most skilled at fall peeps, but I think I saw about 5 Semipalmated Sandpipers at the pond just east of the 3 Crabs Restaurant near Sequim in Wednesday afternoon, 7/30. Photos at the link. They were with about 30 Western Sandpipers, and one each Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. There was also at least one Least Sandpiper, and some very shrill Killdeer.


On the beach side there were several thousand California Gulls and a huddled mass of 15 Marbled Godwit. When a man came to feed bread to the multitudes, only the juvie Glacous Wings formed a rugby scrum to fight over the crumbs, with the Californias looking on haughtily. "We've above all that," they seemed to say.


Doug Plummer
Seattle




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